Chris,
At first glance I noticed you have following-sibling wrapped in parentheses.
The only time you will use parentheses is when you are invoking a function.
In this case you are just searching for a particular node using a standard
XPath expression.
So, this...
<xsl:when test="(following-sibling::element[1][child::flag]) or
(count(following-sibling::element) = 0)">
should read like this...
<xsl:when test="following-sibling::element[1][child::flag] |
count(following-sibling::element) = 0)">
Im rushing out the door and don't have time to look to see what other issues
you might have or what solutions would work best but if I get back and this
hasn't helped or someone else hasn't been able to help I will take another
look at it.
Best regards,
M.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Chris(_dot_)Pearson(_at_)agilisys(_dot_)com>
To: <XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:33 PM
Subject: [xsl] Count() elements in range
I am wrestling with a problem related to counting a specific range of
elements in a source document. I've tried searching the archives, but I
was
unable to locate any past discussions that appeared relevant.
Problem: count the number of <element> nodes in the tree starting from the
last <element> or the last <element> whose following-sibling::element does
not have a child <flag>. I think my issue is simply a matter of XPath
expressions, but my brain keeps trying differing versions of recursion
with
no luck.
Source xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root>
<!--start A series of 1 -->
<element number="A1">
<flag/>
</element>
<!-- start B series of 4 -->
<element number="B1">
<flag/>
</element>
<element number="B2"/>
<element number="B3"/>
<element number="B4"/>
<!-- start C series of 2 -->
<element number="C1">
<flag/>
</element>
<element number="C2"/>
<!-- start D series of 3 -->
<element number="D1">
<flag/>
</element>
<element number="D2" />
<element number="D3" />
</root>
Stylesheet so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" media-type="text/plain"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:template match="/root/element">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="(following-sibling::element[1][child::flag]) or
(count(following-sibling::element) = 0)">
<xsl:call-template name="countFlags">
<xsl:with-param name="nodeList"
select="preceding-sibling::element"
/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise />
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="countFlags">
<xsl:param name="nodeList"/>
<!-- do something here to count the preceding-sibling::element nodes up to
the first <element> whose following-sibling::element does not have a
<flag>
child. -->
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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